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Map of Mason Farm Biological Reserve showing locations of lichen surveyed plots in the forested Southern Shagbark Hickory Slope Natural Area and Big Oak Woods Natural Area.
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As part of a baseline project to document the lichen biodiversity of the North Carolina Piedmont, the lichen biota of Mason Farm Biological Reserve (MFBR) at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was inventoried in 2007 via a survey of permanent 0.1 ha vegetation plots in two distinct Piedmont forest...
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... habitats within MFBR lay in two Natural Areas: 1) the Southern Shagbark Hickory Slope Natural Area (SSH) to the east, and 2) the Big Oak Woods Natural Area (BOW) occupying the southern third of the Reserve (Fig. 1). The lichen diversity at MFBR was inventoried via a survey on established 0.1 ha (20 3 50 m) permanent plots in these natural areas to provide an additional layer of data to those collected previously for the vascular flora ( White et al. 1992). More specifically, four plots were sampled in each Natural Area with the objective to ...
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... on established 0.1 ha (20 3 50 m) permanent plots in these natural areas to provide an additional layer of data to those collected previously for the vascular flora ( White et al. 1992). More specifically, four plots were sampled in each Natural Area with the objective to describe the lichen biotas in the two distinct forest types they represent (Fig. 1). Southern Shagbark Hickory Slope Natural Area.- This area lay on a gradual east-facing slope over a north-south running geological dike of diabase with exposed rocks on the ground. The natural community is Basic Oak-Hickory Forest (Shafale and Weakley 1990), characterized by a canopy of oaks (Quercus spp.) and hickories (Carya spp.) ...
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... dike of diabase with exposed rocks on the ground. The natural community is Basic Oak-Hickory Forest (Shafale and Weakley 1990), characterized by a canopy of oaks (Quercus spp.) and hickories (Carya spp.) with other hardwoods and conifers, including Acer, Juniperus and Pinus. Plots sampled include Nos. 5, 6, 8 and 9 from White et al. (1992) (Fig. 1), ranging 80.0-88.8 m in elevation. The original vegetation surveyed by White et al. (1992) in SSH exhibited a canopy dominated by Quercus alba. In Plots 5 & 6 Quercus stallata, a species characteristic of upland habitats was a co-dominant. Other characteristic co-dominant and subdominant tree species included Acer rubrum (Plots 5 & 9), ...
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... community is Piedmont/Mountain Swamp Forest (Shafale and Weakley 1990), a hardwood bottomland forest that has been intact since before European settlement of the area. Like in SSH, the BOW canopy is characterized by oaks and hickories but some of different taxa, as well as other hardwoods and pines. Plots sampled include Nos. 13, 14, 19 and 20 ( Fig. 1), ranging 74.0-75.2 m in elevation. White et al. (1992) described this forest as dominated by Quercus pagoda, Q. phellos, Carya ovata and Liquidambar styraciflua. More specifically, Plot 13 was dominated by Q. pagoda and L. styraciflua, Plot 14 by C. ovata and Ulmus alata, Plot 19 by Q. phellos, and Plot 20 by Q. alba. The shrub layer ...
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